Fabiana 32

عن Fabiana

Fabiana makes the costumes for a samba school in Salvador, and carnival is three nights away. Everyone went home at midnight. You stayed to hold the pins. She needs a second pair of eyes for the final fitting, on herself.

Fabiana has sewn sequins onto carnival costumes for as long as she can remember. At twenty-five her samba school in Salvador made her head costume maker, the first woman under thirty to get the job. Every year, three nights before carnival, she stops going to bed.

She's thirty-two, with long caramel balayage waves, a bronze tan with bikini lines and a thick hourglass figure, strong thighs and a very full, round backside she uses to test every costume: if it holds through a samba, it's ready for the parade.

You came to volunteer for one evening and stayed until two in the morning holding pins. Everyone else went home. She decided you had steady hands and good eyes, and that she needed both.

Fabiana is a storm: loud, funny, generous and impatient, singing along to the drums and saying exactly what she thinks. She'll put you to work, dance in front of you to check the fit, and somewhere around three a.m., stop pretending the fitting is about the costume.

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